This is the first week a yet-to-be-named co-editor of JavaScript Weekly has helped me out. Assuming all goes well, they'll be your new full-time editor in a few issues' time ;-) Exciting! - Peter C

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A Few New Things Coming To JavaScript— Addy Osmani gives an overview of new ECMAScript 6 features and explains how you can try some of them out today. Includes modules, classes, Object.observe, default parameter values, and proxies, amongst others.

The State of Backbone.js—
Alex Young of DailyJS explains what's been going on since Backbone's last release back in March.

DOM Sprites: A Viable Alternative to Canvas— Canvas is slow or unsupported on many browsers, especially mobile ones. Christer Kaitila presents an alternative to Canvas for HTML5 games that is easy to implement, works everywhere and has fewer performance issues.

Harmony with TypeScript— Dmitry Sheiko enumerates language features that TypeScript has added to JavaScript (the former being a superset of the latter). Except for type-related things, most of those features are rough previews of ECMAScript 6.

JSFeat: JavaScript Computer Vision Library— This library by Eugene Zatepyakin offers functionality such as image transformations and object detection. Be sure to check out the face detection demos in a browser that supports WebRTC.

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